What We've Been Up To: 2012-08-19

Friday, August 24, 2012

See Boy Fish

See Boy Fish
See Daddy Lose Fish.
See Boy Reprimand Daddy.
See Boy Fish Again.
See Daddy Land Fish.
See Boy Delighted.
See Daddy Catch & Release.
See Boy Devastated.

Yep. That pretty much sums it up. I think that he thought we were going to take it back on the cruise ship and ask them to cook it up for us in the galley. I've gotta say, it was a highlight of our stop in Juneau.

Sunday, August 19, 2012

When is 54 = 300,000?

When it's the 54 pounds short that your catch is to winning a big fishing tournament. Man, that must have been ONE EXCITING catch and then drive back to the docks. This is my hubby's dad (and fishing partner). Well, there's always next year guys! It sure sounded like they had fun.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance. But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic. The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.
-Theodore Roosevelt

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Friday, August 24, 2012

See Boy Fish

Sunday, August 19, 2012

When is 54 = 300,000?